Crazy Plant Shop

This game, we should note, is intended to be used in a classroom by a teacher who is teaching the basic concepts of Punnett squares and other genetics. So we have some reviews from players... now we need some reviews from teachers who have used the game as designed. I like this game; playing it makes me smile. I want to know whether it helps kids learn genetics.

A decent educational game concept, with attractive art assets. The gameplay doesn't do them justice, unfortunately, and does a really awful job of introducing the player to the mechanics. Both the UI and the text need to be reviewed by members of the target demographic to be made easier to understand. An educational game needs to first teach the player how to play in order to teach any other concepts, and it's hard to believe anyone without a working mastery of the Punnett Square would be able to figure this one out at all.

Firstly, everything is green. It becomes quite confusing when trying to distinguish between objectives and random shining objects. the set-up of the punnet square needs to be more inuitive, although the side classification pictures are brighter than the rest of the screen, i didnt notice them till over half way through the demo. the wording along with punctuation throughout the game is all kinds of muffed up, sometimes truly confusing. when finishing an order, the screen scrolls to the right in plant selection, which makes a player have to scroll left to select the next plant to complete a project, disrupting gameplay and causing me to loose interest. The Catcus is awesome! the resulting genotypes are way too smal. if the games about learning science make it more obvious than the poorly worded narrative. fix this so my additions do not make the prior words vanish.

You get to play god, making your own plants and selling them to some German friar who stepped out of the 15th century, while teaching kids about biology with a light, cartoony tone to it. I only played a little of the demo but from what I saw it certainly seems useful to teach kids about plant biology, though the interface during the training seems a little confusing with plants not having proper labelling before dropping them in the cart. Or maybe I missed something. In any case, highly recommended.

this game teaches you about different plants and was very interesting.

Crazy Plant Shop does a great job of laying out the principles of Punnett squares and breeding for specific traits. A dictionary is available to provide deeper definitions of every term used. However, the game does suffer from a confusing interface and excessive cluttering of buttons. Throughout the tutorial, it often took a minute to figure out what exactly I was supposed to do next. Additionally, I would sometimes have trouble ordering plants, completing orders, or reaching certain pedestals because of a speech window in front of them.